USISPF launches inaugural Quad+ Journal; Pramit Pal Chaudhuri appointed editor

Business Wire India Quad+, a journal dedicated to the intersection of geopolitics and technology, has been launched by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF). The journal will have a special focus on understanding and analysing the implications of the Quad, the new strategic coalition between the United States, India, Australia, and Japan.

From its origins as a humanitarian response to the Asian tsunami, the Quad has come to represent a new model of a plurilateral organisation. While informal and non-binding, it is now defining the strategic landscape of supply chains and critical technologies across half the world. While it has no doctrine, it is anchoring the emerging Indo-Pacific strategic environment. Quad+ will seek to monitor and explain the organisation's evolution in the coming years and how it reflects the rise of critical technology in contemporary geopolitics.

The first edition will lead with an interview by Dr S Jaishankar, the Indian Minister of External Affairs, about the centrality of technology to world events today. It also includes four articles by strategic thinkers from the four Quad member-states on the relevance of the organisation to their respective countries. There is also an article by Anirudh Suri, author of the book The Great Tech Game, on how and why technology has become the defining element of world affairs.